Rare Jade Brings Big Money, Women Who Dig Opal, MORE
November 13th 2007 15:43
Some Australian Gold Rush History
Put it away, Mr Clarke, or we shall all have our throats cut!" said the Governor of NSW, Sir George Gipps when he was shown gold by the Reverend Clarke in 1844. This was not the reaction you might expect! Clarke had found the gold near Lithgow in NSW, but Gipps feared that everyone would abandon their jobs and start a gold-rush, so he asked Clarke not to publicise the news...
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed centuries-old remains of shops, tenements and cobblestones under the Royal Mile. Experts believe many of the remains found during work to build a visitor centre at the Tron Kirk date back more than 500 years...
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Rare Jade Specimen Brings Record Price
A piece of raw jade was auctioned off at a record high bid of 1.51 million yuan (US$201,500) at the Beijing International Exhibition Center recently. The unpolished, white jade stone (Lot 4078), weighing 3.6 kilograms, was estimated to be 500,000 yuan (US$6,700). The "Jade Mountain Floating Clouds" (Yu Lei Fu Yun) Auction was the first time bidders battled it out for more than 300 top-quality chunks of unrefined jade in China...
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Women Who Dig For Opal
Minnie Berrington was among the first. In 1926, the typist from London made the long journey to Coober Pedy, a remote, South Australian opal mining town halfway between Adelaide and Alice Springs...
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